Standing Anubis

Description This statuette of Anubis, god of embalming, represents him striding, wearing a long wig that covers the transition between his human body and jackal head. As a son of Osiris, he wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.

Exhibitions

• Mummified. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2008-2013.

Provenance Khawam Brothers, Cairo [said to be from Mitrahina]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930